Deidre

From my window -bundles and bundles of electric wires drooping from balcony to balcony, almost roofing the alleyway. Teatowels, aspidistras, camellias, giant avocados and palms.… Read More »In the alleyway

We often eat at a huge, noisy food hall off the campus along the main road in the evening.  There are 94 items on the… Read More »Frog and Dog

Walking back through the alleyways to our apartment in the dusk, music tumbles out of a second floor apartment – rousing, unity type of music… Read More »Who is that on the horizon?

The Crash of Capitalism This sounds a suitable Sunday outing, but Ho Chi Minh's Mausaleum is closed. It closes for 3 months every year for… Read More »The Crash of Capitalism

We try to get out by 8.30 in the morning to explore further afield in our locality. We walk through the dark alleyways of the… Read More »Early morning Communism

Tuyn is six. He is unable to walk because he has cerebral palsy, so according to Vietnamese custom he does not go to school. I… Read More »Clocks and Candles

This is a marvellous place and I have delightful session. About 10 children aged 6-13 drift gradually in to the art room where I have… Read More »Lost Boys

 No-one here believes that we take the local buses, rather than a taxi, but we do. The bus has its own lane sometimes and can… Read More »Long way to LongBien

  We are invited to eat with Phoungh, a former teacher in the rural province where we will be teaching next, now a driver in… Read More »An evening at Phoung’s

I am finding the process of writing for a blog difficult, and it's not just the fact that internet comes and goes and the university… Read More »Writing